Comments on: More Squiggle http://www.magpiebrain.com/2006/04/24/more-squiggle/ The blog of Sam Newman Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:05:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Dan North http://www.magpiebrain.com/2006/04/24/more-squiggle/comment-page-1/#comment-2938 Dan North Wed, 24 May 2006 22:37:07 +0000 http://www.magpiebrain.com/blog/2006/04/24/more-squiggle/#comment-2938 greaterThan(x) looks like a flex point to me. I think I would prefer to see methods called is(Condition) and isNot(Condition) as methods on whatever-startDate-is, so I could say: startDate.is(greaterThan(today()) or startDate.isNot(null) or startDate.is(between(yesterday(), yesterday()+days(3)) or something. Basically that I can define my own Conditions and maybe use a bunch of standard syntactic sugar Conditions and other utility methods that squiggle provides. Or something. greaterThan(x) looks like a flex point to me. I think I would prefer to see methods called is(Condition) and isNot(Condition) as methods on whatever-startDate-is, so I could say:

startDate.is(greaterThan(today()) or startDate.isNot(null) or startDate.is(between(yesterday(), yesterday()+days(3)) or something. Basically that I can define my own Conditions and maybe use a bunch of standard syntactic sugar Conditions and other utility methods that squiggle provides. Or something.

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